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Eduardo Dantas Avenges Joe Warren Loss, Retains Bantamweight Crown at Bellator 166
- Updated: December 3, 2016
Eduardo Dantas ran circles around Joe Warren. Dantas retained the Bellator MMA bantamweight championship with a majority decision over Warren in the Bellator 166 headliner on Friday at the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Judges Todd Anderson and Dan Mathisen cast 49-44 and 48-46 scorecards for Dantas, while Jacob Montalvo saw it 47-47, his ruling leaving many to scratch their head in bewilderment (online betting).It was not close. Dantas (19-4) chewed up Warren’s face with a stinging left jab and battered his lead leg with destructive kicks. More importantly, he steered clear of the clinch and shrugged off all but one of the challenger’s takedown attempts. Trapped on the feet, an increasingly desperate Warren (14-6) could do little more than charge forward and eat punches. Referee John McCarthy docked Dantas a point for a second low blow in the fifth round, the foul proving meaningless to everyone but Montalvo. In the featherweight co-main event, Team Bodyshop prospect A.J. McKee passed his first serious test as a professional and kept his perfect record intact with a unanimous decision over Ray Wood. McKee (6-0) swept the scorecards with 29-27, 30-25 and 30-27 marks from the judges. A replacement for the injured Emmanuel Sanchez, Wood (7-3) made his intentions known in the first round. There, he clipped McKee …
